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Most folks think of care services when they think of hospices, but one enterprising hospice in Las Vegas is expanding its business model by venturing into mobile technology.
In an effort to control costs and get people covered by health insurance, the Affordable Care Act offers a number of options for covering low-income people. Among those options is the Basic Health Program, which some say will save money and others say will kill health insurance exchanges.
With the passage of a ballot initiative this month, Massachusetts became the latest state to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes, joining 17 others and the District of Columbia.
In the late 1990s, New York City small businesses saw surging healthcare costs and many small business employees were going without insurance. As part of broader efforts to warm the city's business climate, in 1999 mayor Rudolph Giuliani awarded a $1 million grant to the New York Business Group on Health to create the not-for-profit insurance exchange HealthPass New York.
Pharmacists at 25 Rite Aid stores in greater Cleveland are offering diabetes control programs, as a part of UnitedHealth Group's community-based diabetes management and prevention initiative.
GOP governors mull exchange options; NAIC compiling list of questions for HHS on HIX implementation; and Conn. group urges state exchange to be an "active purchaser" in this week's HIX Digest.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) will need to place a lot of emphasis on implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the coming year, according to the Office of Inspector General's (OIG) annual summary of management and performance challenges facing the agency, released this week.
An organizational culture study surveying physicians, and a companion study of hospital administrators, found a disconnect between doctors and administrators on issues of cultural fit and organizational performance.
More than half of all Medicare claims denial appeals are overturned by administrative law judges according to a recent report by the Office of Inspector General.
Data released last week for the S&P Healthcare Economic Composite Index shows that the average cost of healthcare services increased 5.06 percent over the preceding 12 months ending in September, a significant drop from the annual growth rate of 5.7 percent reported in August.